Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By this method they obtain fire in less than two minutes, and from the smallest spark they increase it with great speed and dexterity. We have often, says Captain Cook, seen one of them run along the shore, to all appearance with nothing in his hand; yet, stooping down for a moment at the distance of every fifty or hundred yards, he left fire behind him, as we ‘could see, first by the smoke then by the flame, along the drift. of wood and other litter which was scattered along the place. We had the curiosity to examine one of these planters of fire before he set off, and saw him wrap up a small spark in dry _grass, which, when he had run a little way, having been fanned by the air that